I really wish you could help me out with that. I accidentally erased my old copy of the 5.56 beta for Linux during an upgrade a few years ago. I used to use it a lot, and miss having it. Do you still have your original installation package (tarball?) or could you recreate one, and could you upload it or email it to me?

The peer review in CROI consists of peer-review of the abstracts only, not of the papers themselves, so it isn't nearly as solid as a journal publication. The research itself may be solid, but I'd still prefer to wait for it to appear as a paper in a peer-reviewed journal.

The Wall Street Journal is a fine newspaper, but it is not a scientifically peer-reviewed journal. I'd wait and see what the peer review process decides about this proposed treatment. It would not be the first time that a "revolutionary" treatment has failed to prove itself in peer review.